You Get Me
Sometimes in the course of being with others we get a sense that the person with whom we are interacting ‘just gets us.’ For instance, such an experience may be felt as a sense of assuredness that this person knows me in a more profound way than others do or that this person knows what I mean with greater depth than others do.
By clicking on the “create my ‘you get me’ story” button below, you will be directed to a consent to participate acknowledgement followed immediately by questions designed to collect your ‘you get me’ experience.
Other participants will not be able to view your responses. Only the Principal Investigator and research team members will have access to the data. Responses from all participants will be analyzed together to develop an understanding of how people live through an experience of ‘you get me.’
To prevent potential identification, any names of people or places will be removed and replaced with pseudonyms. You will not be asked to provide your name or any contact information during this study. You will not be contacted for the purposes of this study. This research is concerned with how people live through an experience of ‘you get me,’ not who is having the experience.
Based on a specific experience that you have had with ‘you get me,’ please answer four lived experience questions. Don’t worry about providing too much information. The more detail you can provide about your experience, the better! On average, stories will take 10 to 20 minutes to create.
Purpose of this Program of Research
The purpose of the LEN Program of Research is (1) to understand how people understand eight different lived experiences as meaningful from within their situatedness, and (2) to better understand the essential nature of each of the eight phenomena under study.
Who Can Participate?
Anyone who is 18 years of age or older and who has a lived experience with one of the phenomena under study that they are willing to share.
Ethics Information
The LEN Program of Research has been approved by the Humber Research Ethics Board. Participants can verify the ethical approval of this program of research or raise any concerns by contacting the Humber Research Ethics Board (Dr. Lydia Boyko, REB Chair, 416-675-6622 ext. 79322, or lydia.boyko@humber.ca).
Participation is completely voluntary, and participants can withdraw from participation at any time as they are completing the online forms. Once the online forms have been submitted, however, participation cannot be revoked. Pulling already submitted data is difficult because of the lack of personally identifying information. Completing the online forms affirms that each participant gives their informed consent to participate in the specific LEN research project.